Thursday, January 9, 2014

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A group that was denied permission to fly
the Confederate battle flag from utility poles in Lexington has all but
guaranteed that no other flag, aside from the American flag and Virginia flag,
will be flown in the city.

It’s
one more example of the narrow-minded approach to civic life by the local
chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. They refuse to understand that the
battle flag is a polarizing image to many people, including African-Americans
for whom it is a symbol of racism and oppression and that it stands for a
defense of slavery."

No, this is actually one more example of the
ignorance of the editorial board of the News-Advance, since the Confederate
Battle Flag WAS NOT among those displayed from City Light Pole flag stands the
week leading up to the State Holiday!

He killed a bear (read: b'ar) when he was only three. Or so I'm
told. We've all grown up with the legend of Davy Crockett, the
original frontiersman in his coon-skin cap. But as with so many of
our American heroes, the long since forgotten reality of his role
in the development of the American West is far more fascinating
than his popular legend recalls. That reality and that legend go
very much hand in hand, however. Heritage is proud to offer in its
upcoming Texana Auction #6109, to
be held in Dallas on March 8, two David Crockett related pieces
which provide fascinating insight into the development of his
legend, both during and after his extraordinary lifetime.

One item we are pleased to offer is a
fascinating relic related to the infamous death of Colonel
Crockett. On August 12, 1837, Crockett's third son, Robert P.
Crockett, signed this legal document swearing to serve as
administrator of the estate of his father, famously killed
defending the Alamo on March 6th of the previous year. In it Robert
swears to inventory and administrate the "goods, credits,
lands, and tenements" of his father's estate. While this
extraordinary historical document does not tell us anything
particularly surprising in and of itself, it serves as a monument
to the life and heroic death of this American icon. Interestingly,
this lot speaks only to the management of Crockett's physical
legacy, drawing our attention to the role of Crockett's heirs in
the development and management of his legacy as a whole, a fact
that is very important to our understanding of our second Crockett
lot and its significance.

Radio
host Mark Levin has been repeating Rachel Maddow’s arguments against
state nullification and denouncing proponents of the idea — including,
by implication, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Walter Williams, and Barry
Goldwater Jr., who also support the idea — as crackpots,
“neo-Confederates” (whatever this Marxian neologism is supposed to
mean), etc.

So I thought I would post a few resources Levin might consider
consulting. He didn’t learn any of this information in law school, I’m
sure, but that speaks in its favor.

Sen.
Jeff Sessions (R-Al.) has proposed an amendment to the unemployment
benefits extension bill, S. 1845. This amendment, number 2626, would
mandate use of the E-Verify system.

While NumbersUSA takes no position on the overall legislation or the
extension of unemployment benefits, everything needs to be done to make
sure this bill protects Americans from increased foreign worker
competition and illegal workers. With 20 million Americans
unable to find a job, and 7 million illegal aliens holding jobs,
mandating use of the E-Verify system for all employers is the most
effective way to provide relief to unemployed Americans.

Please send a fax to your U.S. Senators and urge them to support Sen. Sessions' E-Verify amendment to S. 1845.

The Department of Justice regards American citizens as “nothing more than rabble,” charges the attorney who won a legal challenge to the National Security Agency’s spy-on-Americans program called PRISM.

The DOJ moved Wednesday to block the plaintiffs in the case brought by attorney Larry Klayman, founder of FreedomWatch, against the NSA’s telephone call-tracking program.

In its motion filed with U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who earlier issued an injunction against the spy program and called it “Orwellian,” the government is asking that the judge halt any further proceedings while an appeals court examines the ruling that said the government was violating the Constitution.

Klayman said the move wasn’t exactly a surprise in light of the government’s spying on Americans and its reluctance to provide information about the programs.

“This is a further attempt to keep information about the biggest violation of the Constitution in American history from the American people. It’s an outrage,” he said.

He said the Obama administration has the perspective of “heads I win, tails you lose,” and its attitude is: “We control all the information and the American people be damned. They don’t have rights.”

For the second time in recent months, a giant sea creature has washed
ashore in California. First it was a rare oarfish that had grown to a
freakish 100-foot length. This time it was a giant squid measuring a
whopping 160 feet from head to tentacle tip.

These giants look different but experts believe they share one
important commonality: they both come from the waters near the Fukushima
Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in the Futaba District of Japan.

Scientists believe that following the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima
Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant an unknown number of sea creatures suffered
genetic mutations that triggered uncontrolled growth – or “radioactive
gigantism.”

"Imagine a tuna fish that could feed a city the size of Austin, Texas.”

"Take Jaws but make him the size of a Manhattan skyscraper.”

Unfortunately, this cadre of mutant giants seems to be drifting
towards the continental U.S. Local officials in Santa Monica, CA –
where the creature drifted ashore – tried to calm residents. “This
creature appears to be deceased and even if alive only thrives in
water,” said Santa Monica Parks Manager Cynthia Beard. “We intend to
move the creature in pieces to Scripps Research Institute so that they
can study it,” she noted.

What does Germany requesting the return
of its gold from the Federal Reserve have to do with you? Glenn Beck
argued on his radio and television programs Wednesday that if what he
suspects is true, it could bring about an unprecedented financial crash
on a global scale. His radio co-host Pat Gray described it as
potentially “cataclysmic.”

“Subprime crisis, do you remember
that?” Beck asked. “Imagine that crash on a global scale, and instead of
houses it’s gold, which backs all of our money, and gold that is not
really owned by anyone. Our money becomes worthless.”

The Justice Department selected an avowed political supporter of President Obama to lead the criminal probe into the IRS
targeting of tea party groups, according to top Republicans who said
Wednesday that the move has ruined the entire investigation.

“The department has created a startling conflict of interest,” Mr. Issa and Mr. Jordan said in a letter sent Wednesday and reviewed by The Washington Times. “It is unbelievable that the department
would choose such an individual to examine the federal government’s
systematic targeting and harassment of organizations opposed to the
president’s policies.”

Many people are familiar with the Jesse James story. How at the time of
the Civil War, along the border between Kansas and Missouri, the
conflict was bitter and intense. When many Southern sympathizers in
Missouri, the James family among them, were victimized, terrorized, and
robbed of all their material possessions in the name of the Union by the
Federal militia. Countless small landowners saw their farms, including
the James-Samuel farm, raided and their crops burned, their farmhands
beaten, their children abused and their womenfolk molested by Federal
militiamen.

The James family, often the most outspoken for Southern
rights, bore the brunt of these vicious Federal militia raids. Frank, as
so many young Southerners did, took up with Quantrill, the fiery
guerrilla leader, and Jesse while still in his teens joined the band of
William "Bloody Bill" Anderson, to strike back at the North and what
they had done to his people.

Regarding all this, a case in point is a book, originally written in 1977 by Ronald J. Sider and called Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. It was published by Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of
Downer’s Grove, Illinois. I understand this book has gone through
several printings and some of the later ones are not quite as
left-leaning as the earlier printings. I wonder, did some folks catch on
and complain and so the publisher decided to tone it down a bit?
Nonetheless, something like 350,000 copies of the earlier left-leaning
printings still went out to a mostly evangelical audience. In the copy I
have, which is the 1977 printing, Mr. Sider is quite hard on anyone
that didn’t immediately sell all that he had over and above the bare
subsistence level and give it away to the poor.

On pages 75-76 he wrote
about rulers cheating the poor. What else is new? Surely this isn’t
“news” to Mr. Sider. This has gone on in every culture and in every
century of human history. It’s not a peculiarly American problem. On
page 76 he wrote about the “God of the poor” as though God were not God
to anyone but the poor. Somehow you get the impression from Sider’s
comments that no one but the poor deserved to have God be concerned
about them. In John’s Gospel, in chapter 3, we are told that God loved
the world, not just the poor that happened to be in it.

A federal board has again ordered the U.S. Postal
Service to reinstate a National Guardsman wrongly fired from his job as a
postal worker because he took military leave, telling the agency to pay
him what could add up to millions in back pay, benefits and legal fees.

On Monday, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, which rules on
disputed federal personnel actions, reiterated that the decision in 2000
to fire Sgt. Maj. Richard Erickson, now 50, violated federal laws
designed to protect troops’ civilian jobs.

The board made a similar ruling in 2012 and ordered the Postal Service
to immediately reinstate Erickson, a decorated long-time Special Forces
member, even if it planned to appeal. But the Postal Service appealed
the ruling without reinstating Erickson.

A North Carolina sheriff has pulled off a deal that should make everyone but the bad guys happy.
When two vintage Thompson fully automatic submachine guns -- better
known as “Tommy Guns”-- were discovered collecting dust in the Forsyth
County armory, Sheriff William Schatzman immediately realized their
value. They weren't worth anything in the hands of his officers, but to a
collector, it was like a law enforcement version of "Antiques
Roadshow."

“We recently moved to a new facility, and we noticed what we had in
our inventory during that process,” Schatzman told FoxNews.com. “It’s
just like when you move to a new house. You start inventory and discover
these things.

“It’s just like when you move to a new house. You start inventory and discover these things.”

- Forsyth County Sheriff William Schatzman

“We said, ‘What are they worth?’ When we found out we started to see if we could make a trade,” Schatzman said.

Bossnapping: a form
of lock-in where employees detain management in the workplace, often in
protest against lay-offs and redundancies, and has especially been
carried out in France. The term gained wide usage in the media following
a series of bossnapping incidents in the spring of 2009 in France where
workers used the tactic in the context of widespread labor unrest
resulting from the late 2000 recession.

A North Carolina detective justifiably shot a schizophrenic 18-year-old
because he believed another officer's life was in danger, a group
representing police officers said, offering an account vastly different
from that of the late teen's outraged family.

The North Carolina Police
Benevolent Association laid out its version of what happened in Boiling
Spring Lakes in a statement issued Wednesday, three days after Keith
Vidal was killed.

The most salient part was
its defense of a Southport police detective for shooting Vidal after,
in its view, determining the teenager posed a "deadly threat" to another
officer. The professional organization represents both these officers,
but not a sheriff's deputy also at the scene.

"(The) detective ...
employed authorized law enforcement action to stop the continuing threat
of deadly harm to (the officer) and others," the Police Benevolent
Association concluded.

The Southport detective's lawyer, W. James Payne, has told CNN affiliate WWAY
that he believes once investigations into the shooting are complete,
"All folks -- everybody -- will conclude that the officers acted
appropriately."

Payne elaborated to CNN
on Wednesday night, claiming his client fired after Vidal made multiple
attempts to stab the other officer with a screwdriver. The other officer
was wearing a bulletproof vest and was not injured.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.